![]() ![]() A Million Brilliant Poems (part one) (Children's anthology).Beware! Low Flying Rabbits (Children's poems).Does Your Face Fit? (Teenage anthology).What Rhymes With Sneeze (Children's anthology and rhyming hints).The Comic Café (Novel children for aged 9 plus).What Are We Fighting For? (with Brian Moses).The Penguin in Lost Property (with Jan Dean).I Wish I Had a Pirate Hat (For younger readers).It's Not My Fault (with Steven Withrow).Sue - I'd get that label invisibly mended if I were you. Amie - yes, poetry is a bit like sewing something together. Hi, Gulnaz, Finnegan and Lorena - I will drop by again soon. Michael - you must stop wearing your dinner. I'd just got out of bed and was hugging the radiator, which was warm, thinking about life and that I was on my way to the cold bathroom. I usually write there and then revisit it after a few weeks or months - choose a few lines or somesuch and try and fashion it into something. I'll try and come up with another course soon. Russell - sorry haven't been your way in ages. Interesting seeing my poems as seen by others. If you have any thoughts on it, I would welcome them. I just put up a post that tries to capture the concept and experience of poetry. Bravo! I find your line about poetry bing "easy to define by its absence" to be an especially interesting observation. It could refer to simple closeness, or, perhaps, something else - depending on what your psyche brings to the table. I think that line is a rorschach test, really. "Her hot afterglow." Oh, how an imagination could run wild with that open-ended phrase. This time, a woman, but barely even descibed. Then, the poem circles back to concretes again. ![]() Then, wham! A high abstraction that can be applied to any number of different concretes. Concrete, narrative descriptions of discreet aspects of the physical world. "Poetry, you write, is easy to define by its absence." The shift here is dramatic. Shifting gears, the next line hits one over the head like a hammer. It describes some of the random aspects of life so well. Myositis Association The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Last Chance Animal Rescue I love that line. Myositis Association The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Last Chance Animal Rescue www.lcarf,org/info/donate In lieu of flowers, please send contributions to the following honoring Roger Stevens: Funeral Mass 11AM Friday at Church of the Immaculate Conception, Westhampton Beach Interment following at Babylon Rural Cemetery, Babylon, NY. Reposing Moloney’s Lake Funeral Home, 132 Ronkonkoma Avenue, Lake Ronkonkoma, NY where a religious service will be held Thursday evening. He will be greatly missed by those he leaves behind. Roger Stevens touched the lives of so many people. Roger was also a benefactor to Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Center and Last Chance Animal Rescue. The study is now in human trials and is offering hope to those stricken with these diseases. He volunteered as a patient at the National Institutes of Health in a study for Duchene’s Muscular Dystrophy, as well as Myositis. In 2002 he was diagnosed with Inclusion Body Myositis, a muscle wasting disease for which there is no cure. In 1999 Roger retired from the Island Companies to pursue his personal interests. He honored his father Joseph Duryea, by naming the scholarship the Joseph D/Roger E Stevens Scholarship fund. Roger gave to his high school alma mater $1000 scholarship for Baldwin High School seniors who worked hard to achieve B and C grades and who made efforts to contribute to the community. Roger was also honored by Family Counseling for his contributions to the community. Roger also did the renovation of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, in Quogue under the watchful eye of Monsignor Joseph Murray. The renovation was done in 8 months and he donated the lounge area to the theater as well as his services and that of his company. In 1998 Roger and his company became involved in the renovation of the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center. He began his own business in 1969 with the help of Robert Weber, Robert Bartow, and Richard Clay, his business partners. He came back to Long Island, got married and had three children. He went to Baldwin High School, where he was captain of the football team, then to Morehead University in Kentucky. He was one of five children born to Duryea and Anna Dorothy Stevens on Apand grew up in Baldwin, NY. He is survived by his wife Karen, his children Amy, Matthew, Timothy, Patty and Oakley, his grandchildren Bryan, Kyle, Dante, Jarrell, Timothy, Charles, Karlin, Connor, Hannah, Oakley, his great granddaughter Ava and his siblings: Richard, Dorothy and Theodore. Stevens, Roger passed away at his home in Remsenburg, NY on Septemin his 73rd year. ![]()
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